BurstIQ seeks to make patient data more secure, accessible, and shareable while creating richer, more personalized and more insightful individual health profiles through Blockchain-based data storage and machine learning engines for data analysis.

The spring and summer of 2017 have been tumultuous for the ICO industry. We summarize recent developments, particularly the wave of regulatory actions undertaken by governments around the world. Ultimately, we argue for cautious optimism while laying the groundwork for a forthcoming framework for industry self-regulation.

Blackmoon Crypto, aspiring to become ‘The bridge between the crypto universe and the traditional investment market,’ is the creation of an Ireland-based financial management group developing a blockchain-based investment management platform allowing managers to host and manage their own tokenized funds on with Blackmoon providing infrastructure and services to support and simplify fund management.

Kik, a leading messaging platform among the teenage and young adult market, has announced its plans to create and integrate its own cryptocurrency into its platform, the first billion-dollar, multi-million-user company to do so. The currency, ‘Kin’, has been created to signify a new family of interconnected apps located within a larger, unified ecosystem, of which Kik intends to be the initial adopter but only one of many eventual companies operating on the platform.